Enclosure in Tomboholla — Report the wrong picture

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Tomboholla holds a forgotten fort above the green ridge, watching the whole county while people forget it exists. Its shallow scar barely rises from the grass, yet the view stretches unbroken in every direction. Someone stood there once, perhaps watching weather or waiting for news, before fields and fences cut through the memory. The land keeps the shape even when maps drop the name.

In pasture, located on the top of a ridge, affording good views in all directions over the surrounding undulating grassland. This possible rath, known locally as a ‘fort’, is not shown on OS 6-inch maps. It is poorly preserved. The remains consist of a roughly ovoid area (c. 26m NE-SW, c. 22n NW-SE) defined by remnants of a scarp. The scarp (H 0.6m) is best preserved at WSW−NW, merging at NW−N with the ridge slope. It is truncated at E−ESE by a straight field fence/scarp on a NW−SE axis. Remnants of a low curving scarp are also be traced E−ESE, petering out at SE, where the enclosure merges seamlessly with the natural ridge slope. A field wall skirts the base of the slope. Prominent cultivation ridges, on a NNW-SSE axis, traverse the E half of the interior. An L-shaped trench or depression (Wth 2.5m at top, 1.2m at base; D 0.4m) extends from the ridge slope at S through the interior for 10m to N, and then turns to ENE for 3m where it peters out; this appears to cut through the cultivation ridges, which suggests it is the result of relatively recent disturbance. A telegraph pole stands in the E quadrant Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 January 2021

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